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Author : Susan Campbell,Ray Bendici,Bill Heald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762774920
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Nutmeg State has to offer!
Author : Laura La Bella
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435894785
Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, industries, and key figures of Connecticut.
Author : Anastasia Mills Healy
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681063058
Did you know that there’s a Connecticut hotel room with a real helicopter inside? Can you guess who inspired the character of Indiana Jones, who was president before George Washington, and who flew before the Wright Brothers? Find the state’s most interesting and offbeat stories in Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Are you interested in taking a safari or racing a chariot? Had you ever heard that Martin Luther King Jr. spent two summers in Connecticut? Included are more than eighty engaging stories that provide insight into one of America’s oldest states. Inside are tales of pirates, an underground prison, and a possessed doll. Aren’t you curious about the spectacular stained glass church that was unknowingly built in the shape of a fish by a famous architect? From the world’s smallest Native American reservation to professionally coiffed cows and a replica of Marie Antoinette’s palace, you’ll find intrigue around every corner of this small but surprising state. Author Anastasia Mills Healy brings to life the long history of intriguing people, places, and events that will fascinate even life long residents of Connecticut.
Author : Victoria Sherrow
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761421556
An introduction to the geography, history, government, economy, people, achievements, and landmarks of Connecticut.
Author : Rick Yoder,David Harding
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461747383
Discover Nebraska's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Avoca Quack-Off, learn about the inland Linoma Lighthouse, view a Roller Skating Museum, and pay a visit to the world's largest covered wagon. Only true Cornhuskers could capture the essence of these and other authentic Nebraska phenomena, and Rick Yoder and David Harding do their home state proud.
Author : Eric Jones,Dan Coffey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762761609
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!
Author : Susan Campbell,Bill Heald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762708255
From mysterious noises and surreal supermarkets to car artists, flocks of plastic flamingoes, and places where Washington never slept, discover the wry observations about Connecticut's oddest and most obscure phenomena.
Author : Jim Lampos,Michaelle Pearson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625853134
Old Lyme's illustrious history owes much to innovative women. Suffragist Katharine Ludington was co-founder of the League of Women Voters. In the 1830s, Phoebe Griffin Noyes started a school for art and general subjects. At the turn of the twentieth century, Florence Griswold welcomed the artists of the Lyme Art Colony by creating the "Birthplace of American Impressionism." By World War II, Teddy Kenyon had made her mark as a test pilot. Old Lyme's artistic tradition was continued by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler, who founded the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in 1976. Authors Michaelle Pearson and Jim Lampos honor the women whose triumphs made Old Lyme the popular summer resort and artists' colony it is today.
Author : Michael J. Vieira & J. North Conway
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467136129
New England is a rocky, rugged region. Its towns are marked by stone walls and its cities anchored by native granite and marble buildings. Historically significant boulders, many with Native American as well as colonial and neo-pagan origins, attract tourists from around the world. Some are formations that are complex in shape, form and significance, while others contain enigmatic messages, meanings and intriguing characteristics. Learn more about the famous sites like Plymouth Rock, the Old Man of the Mountain and the Sleeping Giant, as well as the lesser-known such as Profile Rock, Dighton Rock and Slate Rock. Authors Michael J. Vieira and J. North Conway examine the history, the legends and the people associated with forty-five notable geological wonders.
Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440354519
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Author : Pam Grout
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762765799
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Sunflower State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Kansan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Kansas Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Pam Grout takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Sunflower State. Visit the Museum of the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things—and get your own largest ball starter kit. Meet more chainsaw-wielding, glow-in-the-dark-scrap-metal-zoo-building, grapefruit-peel-sculpting, papier-mâché-mixing, porcelain-pig-painting grassroots artists than you can shake a stick at! Get a load of Big Brutus, a sixteen-story coal shovel that has become a popular tourist attraction; and discover the thrill of an indoor hurricane—it’ll blow you away.
Author : Francis Hodge
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292761544
The famous "Stage Yankees," with their eccentric New England dialect comedy, entertained audiences from Boston to New Orleans, from New York to London in the years between 1825 and 1850. They provided the creative energy for the development of an American-type character in early plays of native authorship. This book examines the full range of their theatre activity, not only as actors, but also as playmakers, and re-evaluates their contribution to the growth of the American stage. Yankee theatre was not an oddity, a passing fad, or an accident of entertainment; it was an honest exploitation of the materials of American life for an audience in search of its own identification. The delineation of the American character—a full-length realistic portrait in the context of stage comedy—was its projected goal; and though not the only method for such delineation, the theatre form was the most popular and extensive way of disseminating the American image. The Yankee actors openly borrowed from what literary sources were available to them, but because of their special position as actors, who were required to give flesh-and-blood imitations of people for the believable acceptance of others viewing the same people about them, they were forced to draw extensively on their actors' imaginations and to present the American as they saw him. If the image was too often an external one, it still revealed the Yankee as a hardy individual whose independence was a primary assumption; as a bargainer, whose techniques were more clever than England's sharpest penny-pincher; as a country person, more intelligent, sharper and keener in dealings than the city-bred type; as an American freewheeler who always landed on top, not out of naive honesty but out of a simple perception of other human beings and their gullibility. Much new evidence in this study is based on London productions, where the view of English audiences and critics was sharply focused on what Americans thought about themselves and the new culture of democracy emerging around them. The shift from America, the borrower, to America, the original doer, can be clearly seen in this stager activity. Yankee theatre, then, is an epitome of the emerging American after the Second War for Independence. Emerging nationalism meant emerging national definition. Yankee theatre thus led to the first cohesive body of American plays, the first American actors seen in London, and to a new realistic interpretation of the American in the "character" plays of the 1870s and 1880s.
Author : Susan Campbell
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807010669
Growing up fundamentalist and female-and maturing into a feminist By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn't he? She went to his house three times a week, sat in his living room, listened to his stories, loudly and lustily sang songs to him. So, one Sunday morning, she walked to the front of her fundamentalist Christian church to profess her love for Jesus and to be baptized. But from the moment her robe floated to the surface of the baptistery water, she began to question her fundamentalist Christian faith. If baptism requires complete immersion underwater, what does it mean, she wondered, if a piece of fabric attached to a would-be Christian floats to the top? Does the baptism still count? In this lovingly told tale, Susan Campbell takes us into the world of fundamentalism-a world where the details really, really matter. And she shows us what happened when she finally came to admit that in her faith, women would never be allowed a seat at the throne.
Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493016181
Insiders' Guide to Connecticut is the essential source for in-depth travel information for visitors and locals to the Nutmeg State. Written by a local (and true insider), Insiders' Guide to Connecticut offers a personal and practical perspective of the state that makes it a must-have guide for travelers as well as residents looking to rediscover their home state.
Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1743 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781599639536
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